Improvement in brooms



1. SHIPMAN.

Brooms.

Patented Feb. 3,1876

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SHIPMAN, OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROOMS.

Speci :ation forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,182, dated February 3, 1874; application filed September 20, 1873. I i

-To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOHN SHIPMAN, of Saratoga Springs, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Brooms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of my broom. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of my broom. Fig. 3 is a detail view of same.

This invention relates to certain novel improvements on brooms; and consists in the employment of two spring-bows, which are concealed inside of the broom between its core of wisps and the outer layer of wisps, and which are secured in such manner that they ai'ord good supports for the wisps while using the broom; also, in securing the wire wrapping which is around the neck of the broom to the handle thereof' by means of wire braces and a rivet, which will prevent the said wrapping slipping olf the wisps which form the neck, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following description of my invention will enable others skilled in the art to understand it.

The wisps of broom-corn forming the core A, and 'also those forming the outer layer B, are bunched together after the well-known manner of making hand sweeping-brooms, and the handle C is secured in its place by the usual metal wrapping a b, which embraces the neck D and the head of the core A. The wisps thus wrapped and secured to the handle C are all connected together by two or more rows of annealed-wire sewing, d, which is far superior to pack-thread, or anything else hitherto used for this purpose, in that the wire will not decay nor be frayed out, and it aifords, when properly applied, a very firm hold on the wisps. The wire wrapping a, which surrounds the upper end of the neck D, is liable to slip oft' the wisps upon the handle and greatly impair, if

not wholly destroy, the usefulness of the broom. This I obviate by means of binding-wires g g on opposite sides of the broom, which are looped around a rivet, h, that is driven through the handle C below the wrapping b, and which are carried up and under the wrapping a, and their ends hooked over and pressed closely around the upper wire of said wrapping. 1f desired, narrow strips e, of leather or other suitable material, may be applied between the wisps forming the neck D and the bindingwires g y, for the purpose of protecting the w1sps.,

When a broom' is prepared as above described, I insert between the core A and the outer layer of wisps B, on opposite sides of the core, metal bows ff, which are nearly as wide as the broom below the sewing d, and which have their ends j" f bent inwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, for the purpose of hooking' them into the two courses of sewing d and across the binding-wires d thereof. The bows ff are thus concealed in the broom and firmly held in place. They afford an excellent support to the wisps, stiffening them near their lower ends, and preventing them breaking 0E at the sewing d.. The bows also allow free Aelasticity to the wisps, and greatly improve hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN' SHIPMAN.

Titnessesz P. F. ALLEN, LEwrs ELLSWORTH. 

